Military Brass Likes Lady Gaga Parody

In the two weeks
since it first hit the Internet, the YouTube video of Afghanistan-based
soldier recreating Lady Gaga's "Telephone" video have ricocheted around
the web enough times to accrue over 3 million hits. At this point,
everyone has seen it--including some of the military's top brass. And
they like what they see. Jay Price of the Raleigh, North Carolina, News &
Observer reports:

Fort Bragg soldiers whose goofy
war-zone remake of a Lady Gaga video went viral over the weekend and
soared to more than 3 million hits on YouTube have won a thumbs up from
the brass.

"The brigade command team is happy to see
that they also still have a good sense of humor and that morale is
high," said Maj. Michelle Baldanza, a spokeswoman in Afghanistan for the
division's 4th Brigade Combat Team via e-mail from Kandahar Air Field.

The
soldiers have a challenging mission there, and they were just having a
good time and "blowing off some steam in their downtime," Baldanza said.